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“Pyrococcus chitinophagus”

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Citation

Formal styling
“Pyrococcus chitinophagus” corrig. (ex Huber et al., 1995)
Oldest registered citation
Huber et al., 1995
Original (not valid) publication
Huber et al., 1995
Corrigendum
Papadimitriou et al., 2016 from “Thermococcus chitinophagus” (sic)
SeqCode status
Automated discovery
Canonical URL
https://seqco.de/i:55592

Nomenclature

Rank
Species
Syllabication
chi.ti.no.pha'gus
Etymology
Gr. masc. n. chiton, sheath; Gr. masc. n. phagos, degrader; chitinophagus
Notes
The first complete genome sequence of Pyrococcus chitonophagus was published  by Papadimitriou et al. 2016 . The archaeon was previously suggested to belong to the Thermococcus rather than the Pyrococcus genus. Whole genome phylogeny as well as whole proteome comparisons using all available complete genomes in Thermococcales clearly showed that the species belongs to the Pyrococcus genus. 
Nomenclatural type
Genome sc|0005543 Ts
Reference strain
Strain sc|0041572: DSM 10152 Lookup StrainInfo

Taxonomy

Description
P. chitonophagus was originally isolated from a hydrothermal vent site and it has been described to effectively degrade chitin debris, and therefore is considered to play a major role in the sea water ecology and metabolic activity of microbial consortia within hot sea water ecosystems. 
Classification
Archaea » Methanobacteriota » Thermococci » Thermococcales » Thermococcaceae » Pyrococcus » “Pyrococcus chitinophagus”
Parent
Pyrococcus assigned in Papadimitriou et al., 2016
Pseudonyms
  • Thermococcus chitinophagus (Original, corrected name)

Genomics

Accession
INSDC Nucleotide: GCA_900012635.1 [NCBI | EMBL]
Cultures
Strain sc|0041572
Type
Isolate Genome
Source
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Last modified 8 months ago

Metadata

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Local history
Registered
8 months ago and claimed 8 months ago by Da Cunha, Violette

Publications
2

Citation Title
Papadimitriou et al., 2016, Extremophiles Analysis of the complete genome sequence of the archaeon Pyrococcus chitonophagus DSM 10152 (formerly Thermococcus chitonophagus)
Corrigendum
Assigned this taxon
Huber et al., 1995, Archives of Microbiology Thermococcus chitonophagus sp. nov., a novel, chitin-degrading, hyperthermophilic archaeum from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent environment
Original (not valid) publication


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